Okay, last one I promise... Then we can get back to discussing the New Mutants horror film, which, for the record, I think is an interesting idea, especially since the last "horror-super-hero" experiment went down in flames so badly. If nothing else, this premise takes a certain amount of commercial nerve...

Thanks, Robert! I'll work on that tomorrow... I haven't been hoarding these, I promise. I just got really inspired by the intrinsically funny idea of X-Men romantic comedies. I mean, come on! Is there a franchise out there where the characters are any more unlucky at romance than the X-Men?

I would totally see a "Young Heroes In Love" kind of film. (I have this image in my head of Spider-Man swinging away sadly from his break-up with MJ, as Air Supply thunders on the soundtrack.) With five or six Marvel superhero movies a year there's plenty of space in their output to accommodate even more variation. Besides, the more the formula gets changed up the more changes there are to accidentally recreate to alchemy of the classic originals.

Probably the same way he eats caviar- retractable mouth screen. Not that it matters in the above example, of course, because we were later told that was a robot.

On the topic of the New Mutants film, I did finally get around to watching that trailer and my hopes for the film have more or less evaporated. I allowed myself to buy into the myth that a film that says it's going to adapt a storyline from the comics would actually do so. Clearly that doesn't seem to be the case here. What's shown is a standard issue, lock-the-kids-up-&-torture-them-For Science! story with no reason whatsoever to tie back to the comic. Every scene there is unrelated to the source material. Any "Demon Bear" references are likely to be a scary recurring dream the Mirage variation has that she is probably likely later able to "control" to scare the bad guys as it goes tearing through the mean ol' hospital filled with bad, bad guys in white coats.

I foolishly thought the film-makers might want to somehow bring Sienkiewicz's style or mood to the screen. What would that have looked like, seeing those images move? Instead, it looks like a bargain basement anything-film with nothing much to do with the comic. At this point, based on what I'm seeing, I'm disappointed. I don't know why I hoped for better.